Draft-rigging carrier for car-sills.



No. 776,257. PATENTED NOV. 29, 1904.

, '0. S. PULLIAM.

DRAFT RIGGING CARRIER FOR GAR SILLS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 18, 1904.

no MODEL.

.. Nrrnn STATES Patented November 29, 1904.

OSWAL'D S. PULLI-AM, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO COM- MONI VEALTH STEEL COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A

CORPORATION.

DRAFT-HIGGINS CARRIER FOB CAR-SILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,257, dated November 29, 1904. Application filed April 18, 1904. Serial No. 203,669. (No modem To all 1072 0771, it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, OSWALD S. PULLIAM, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft-Rigging Carriers for Car- Sills, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the. accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a construction of draft-rigging carriers designed for use in connection with a cast-metal car-sill, the object of the invention being tosecure an arrangement whereby the sill and rigging-carrier are rendered a unit.

Figure I'is a top or plan view of a pair of my draft-rigging carriers shown appliedto a cast car-sill and car-body bolster associated therewith. Fig. II is an enlarged perspective view of one of the draft-rigging carriers. Fig. III is a longitudinal vertical section taken on line III III, Fig. I. Fig. IV is an enlarged vertical cross-section taken on line IV IV, Fig. I. Fig. V is a perspective view of amodification of my draft-rigging carrier. Fig. V1 is a section similar to Fig. IV, illustrating a modification of my improvement.

1 designates acast-metal car-sill. This sill is provided with reduced ends 2, as seen in Fig. I.

3 designates the draft rigging carriers, which are bifurcated at their rear ends to form fork-arms 4:, that straddle the reduced ends of the car-sill and are secured thereto by any suitable means, such as bolts 5. sides 6 of the carriers 3 are connected by transverse ties 7, and in the forward ends of said sides are longitudinal slots 8. ward ends of the sides being separated, provision is thereby made for the positioning of the draw-bar of the draft-rigging (indicated by dotted lines at A, Fig. 1) between said sides, and the slots 8 serve as guideways for the guides B of said draw-bar. At the top edges of the draft-riggingcarrier sides are notches 9, and at the lower edges of said sides are notches 10. These notches are made in The The forthe carriers to provide seats for a separable body-bolster and its removable center plate, which bolster may be the construction illustrated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 753,112, issued February 23, 1904, to the Separable Body Bolster Company. The upper central parts of the bolster (designated by 11) fit into the notches 9 of the carriers. The central portion 12 of the bolster occupies a position intermediate of the carrier sides 6, and the removable bolster center bearing 13 is fitted to the lower edges of the carrier sides and the lower end of the bolster central portion 12. It will be seen that by this construction I am enabled to provide a car-sill with draft-rigging carriers extending directly from the ends of the sill, whereby the sill and rigging-carriers constitute a single unit, and that I also provide for the mounting of the car-body bolsters in connection with the rigging-carriers in a manner whereby they are gradually included in the unit embodying the car-sill and draft-rigging carriers.

In Fig. V, I have shown a modification in which the construction of the draft-rigging carrier is in the main the same as that previously described, but in which the forward ends of the carrier sides are united by top portions 14., thereby rendering the forward ends of the carrier of box instead of skeleton form, as in the construction previously described. The remaining features in this construction corresponding to the previously-described construction are designated by the same numerals as those previously used with the aflix-letter a applied thereto.

In Fig. VI, I have illustrated another modification wherein the center plate 13, that fits to the bolster 11, is made integral with the carrier 3 instead of being a part separate therefrom and is provided with upwardly-pro jecting ribs 13", that take the place of the sides of the draft-rigging carrier at the location of the notches therein, as previously described, and which fit against the central portion 12 of the bolster. In this construction the bolster is fitted to the center bearing of the draft-rigging carrier by applying it from above and is secured to said center bearing by any suitable means, such as the bolts 15.

1 claim as my invention 1. The combination With a cast-metal carsill, of draft-rigging carriers secured to the ends of said sill and arranged to receive and hold body-bolsters applied thereto, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination With a cast-metal carsill, of draft-rigging carriers secured to the ends of said sill, said carriers being notched to receive body-bolsters applied thereto, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination With a car-sill, of draftrig'ging carriers connected to the ends of said 

